Talk:Street Fighter

Human Killing Machine

I removed some language from the article in the Street Fighter II section that claimed Human Killing Machine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) was a failed sequel to the original Street Fighter. I did some research into when it was added, and it appears an IP added it as far back as 2009-01-17T21:18:04, and it was removed on 2009-01-29T16:07:44. The content was restored by a different IP from the same network the next day with this edit: 2009-01-30T01:49:52, and it has remained in the article (in as much as I can tell without checking many of the intervening edits) for over a decade. The only sources provided to support the claim were a YouTube video (of dubious research value) and a link to an old issue of Your Sinclair (a UK enthusiast magazine for the old Sinclair computer systems (mainly the ZX Spectrum)).

Referencing that, I found two instances of "Street Fighter" mentioned by the author Duncan MacDonald, the first in the review intro where he opens with:

Human Killing Machine? The sequel to Street Fighter? Blimey! Duncan MacDonald hides behind a sofa and tells us about it by flashing a torch in morse code. Will he be spotted though?

In the review itself, it's only mentioned once more (2nd paragraph):

Remember Street Fighter with it's big (big big) sprites, in which you got to kick, bash and slash (Oo-er) it up against backdrops from various locations throughout the world? You do? Well, Human Killing Machine is the sequel. The problem with Street Fighter was that it was just too easy to finish off your assailants – if you crouched down and hacked away at their ankles with your foot for long enough they'd soon topple over and cash in their chips. Not so with Human Killing Machine – not by a long chalk by cracky, so cast those negative thoughts from your minds. Oh, and read on.

I feel like the author was writing this review not based on facts, but based on trying to help the developer of the game sell more units. Nothing else in the review makes a connection between Capcom and the listed publisher "Go!" (apparently a label used by U.S. Gold). I suppose one could try and argue this is like Ms. Pac-Man being a sequel to Pac-Man (when in fact Ms. Pac-Man was an unauthorized attempt that was eventually made official after development). However, I don't think that is the case here, and unless additional sources can be provided to corroborate this claim (importantly: sources that may not have been tainted by this article having the information present for over a decade and thus Wikipedia being in fact the circular source for this in some more recent article), I think the information should be omitted. Opinions and thoughts welcome. —Locke Cole • t • c 05:11, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Almost forgot: Street Fighter II makes no mention of Human Killing Machine anywhere, which seems really odd considering it was mentioned so prominently here. —Locke Cole • t • c 05:23, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

I think you made the right choice. Axem Titanium (talk) 15:28, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Gameplay images

I think there should be gameplay images in some categories, like how there was an arcade cabinet image for Street Fighter 1. MRuuby (talk) 18:23, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

"Street Fighter(series)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Street Fighter(series) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 6#Street Fighter(series) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 19:04, 6 April 2022 (UTC)